We have started the process of growing a totally sustainable community that will satisfy the needs of the residents for many generations. The personal input of our owners will always be of prime consideration.

Utilizing many state-of-the-art techniques and permaculture principles, we are actually forging a lifestyle

that will allow for individual personal growth and managed community development.

A successful sustainable system allows for an exponential growth pattern that will evolve in a natural way.

The concept of sustainable development is often broken out into three constituent parts:

*We have hired permaculture experts to help us design food systems that will last for generations.

*Things like lettuce and tomatoes will be planted in personal gardens or on land that the developer will be donating to the community. In other words, the developer is not responsible for the gardens once the initial land is donated and permaculture infrastructure is put in place.

*We are in the process of planting thousands of fruit trees.

*The members of the community will also be creating food trade/share programs.

*We are offering a sustainable food production system at SGEV that will have some important elements in place for residents and then the residents can decide what else they want to have on site and where, once they take over the community from the developer. As you know, we have always encouraged SGEV residents to plant gardens on their own property along with chickens, etc. (whatever they want) and then trade off with other residents for food they do not have. That is pretty much the description of sustainable sharing. We are still not asking residents to do the work themselves, unless they want to, but are offering a way to have it done for them.

*Several plans for bamboo houses are being put together now which will provide us another selection of home designs for our buyers who are not looking to custom design their homes.

Our Sustainable Living Project at Serenity Gardens EcoVillage

What we are doing:

1. Building a model homestead on 1/2 acre that has everything needed for a family of 3 to live on the property. . .Food, water and energy.

2. Building this all for under $50,000 (this is going to take lots of creativity).

3. Completing this project in less than 6 months. Of course it will take a lot longer than that for the food systems to be at full production.​